Ethical defense? Where do you get that from? Commonsense tells us that the author could not possibly know the moral intentions of that 1% and uses <metaphor> to

Ethical defense? Where do you get that from? Commonsense tells us that the author could not possibly know the moral intentions of that 1% and uses <metaphor> to illustrate a fact known to all of us and relevant to our life in general - that Ignorance can lead one to take the role of prey. Your other little gem is 'Sure (!) one can argue that most profit in businesses ,,.. results from information asymmetry'. Since I myself must now press on with ensuring my customers don't know what I know, I can only think how uncomfortable you must be in the modern world.